The would work if the trash can is placed outside the door.
The one at work is right next to the door, so you wash, dry, grab the door handle, and then toss as you walk out.
They did mandate the electric blowers at the downtown office complex over the winter, but I think they’ve since gone back to paper towels. They changed the door handles to allow you to open them with your “arm”, but that is just pretending to be sanitary.
Their excuse to switching to air blowers was that people were flushing paper towels down the toilet. Never a problem for 100 years, but suddenly, an issue. I’d say that some fascist took over the facilities maintenance department and decided that they could save 1% on paper costs by going with the unsanitary air dryers.
The only foreign objects that were probably being flushed were the so-called “flushable” wipes, which are not really flushable as they don’t break down. Some people were using them to wipe the seats pre-use in the restroom so as to have a nice sanitary seat for their business. The cure for that would be to have a medical waste basket next to the toilet in each stall, because banning paper towels won’t stop paranoid people from pre-wiping the commode seat.